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Yoriko Kawaguchi Shuichi Kato Minister of the Environment, Japan Member of the House of Councilors, Japan Yoriko Kawaguchi has served as Minister of the Environment 1981 Ph.D., Environmental Planning, Graduate School of Earth since January 2001, succeeding her appointment as Minister of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University. Associate State and Director-General of the Environment Agency in July Assistant at Kitami Engineering College; Deputy Director for 2000. Aside from her cabinet position, she serves as a member Research Investigation Department; Takugin Sogo Inc; of the Trilateral Commission and a special member of the Japan Professor of Earth Environmental Economics at Otaru Association of Corporate Executives. Prior to her appointment University of Commerce. 1995 Elected as Member of the House to the cabinet, she was a managing director of Suntory Ltd. of Councilors. Member of GLOBE, Member of the Executive since 1993, responsible for customer relations and environment. Committee for GEA, Bureau Chief of PAPRE (nonpartisan) and At that time she was also serving on Japanese Government advi- Bureau Chief of the Secretariat in charge of the Eco-Japan project sory boards, namely the Regulatory Reform Committee, the of the New Komeito. Central Council for Education, and the University Council. She was also on the board of directors of the Japan Center for *** International Exchange and on the advisory committee of the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation. Before Bo Jansson joining Suntory Ltd., she worked in the Ministry of Professor, Institute of Applied Environmental Research, International Trade and Industry (MITI) of the Japanese Stockholm University, Sweden Government. Her past assignments for MITI included Director- General of the Economic Cooperation Department and Deputy Bo Jansson is a professor of chemical environmental analysis at Director-General for Global Environmental Affairs. She also Stockholm University, Sweden. Professor Jansson has since the had worked for the World Bank as an economist and for the early 1970’s been working with the identification of persistent Embassy of Japan in the United States as Minister. B.A. in organic compounds in the environment, and the development of International Relations, University of Tokyo. M. Phil. in methods for the chemical analysis of these substances. He is Economics, Yale University. today mainly acting as a scientific advisor to international organisations, such as UNEP, WHO, Commission of the European Union, European Environment Agency and Masaru Hashimoto International Council for Exploration of the Seas. The co-operation Governor of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan with national and local authorities is also important. 1969 Graduated from the Department of Law, University of Tokyo; the Ministry of Home Affairs. Director of Document Kazuhiko Adachi and Educational Affairs, Regional, Financial Divisions of the Director, Environmental Health and Safety Division, Fukui Prefectural Office; General-Director of General Affairs Environmental Policy Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Department of the Yamanashi Prefectural Office. Director of Government of Japan the Disaster Prevention Coordination Division, Disaster Prevention Bureau, Agency of National Land; Director of the 1979 graduated from Tokyo University Medical School and in Dangerous Objects Regulation and Fire Defense Divisions, Fire the same year, entered the Ministry of Health and Welfare. 1985 Defense Agency, Ministry of Home Affairs; Director of the Deputy Director of the Tuberculosis and Intractable Disease First Public Enterprise Division, Local Finance Bureau, Division, Health Service Bureau, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Home Affairs. 1993 elected as Governor of Ibaraki Welfare. The Japanese Embassy in the Philippines; the Health Prefecture and now in his third term of office. Policy Bureau, the Health Service Bureau, the Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly, and the Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Health and Welfare. 1994 Director-General of the Hiroshi Hase Health and Environmental Department, Kagoshima Prefectural Member of the House of Representatives, Japan Government; Director for Radiation Protection Division, Nuclear Safety Bureau, Agency of Science and Technology; 1984 graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature, Chief Development Staff for the Planning Department, National Senshu University. 1984 Teacher for Japanese Literature at Space Development Agency. July 2001 Director of the Seiryo High School. Selected and competed as Wrestler in Los Environmental Health and Safety Division, Environmental Angeles Olympics, Summer, 1984. 1985 Professional Wrestler Policy Bureau, Ministry of Environment. and Writer (member of the Japanese Literature Climate Academy). 1995 Elected as Member of the House of Councilors. 2000 Elected as Member of the House of Shinsuke Tanabe Representatives. Chairman of the Subcommittee of Chemical Professor, Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime Substances, Liberal Democratic Party, Japan. University, Japan 1975 Graduated Ehime University, Graduate School of Agriculture. 1977 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University. 1985 Awarded Ph.D. Nagoya University. 1987 Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University. 1995 Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University. 1999 Professor, Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University. 1985 Okada Prize from The Oceanographical Society of Japan. 1999 Nissan Science Prize from Nissan Science Foundation. 2000 Citation Classic Awards in Japan from ISI Thomson Scientific. His current research efforts are aimed at understanding global contamination of endocrine disrupters and their toxic effects to humans and wildlife. Chisato Mori Masatoshi Morita Professor, Department of Bioenvironmental Medicine, Executive Acting Director, National Institute for, Environmental Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan Studies (NIES), Japan 1984-1992 Research Associate, Department of Anatomy, Graduated in 1967; Tokyo University. Ph. D.(Chemistry) 1972; Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. 1990- Graduate School, Tokyo University. Tokyo Metropolitan 1992 Visiting Associate, Gamete Biology Section, LRDT, Institute for Public Health (1972-1978). National Institute for NIEHS/NIH, NC, U.S.A. 1992-2000 Associate Professor, Environmental Studies (1978- present); Senior Scientist 1978- Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Faculty 1980, Section Head 1980-1988, Division Director 1988-1996, of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. 2000-2001 Executive Director 1996-present. Visiting Professor, Tokyo Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of University, Medical School (1980- present). IUPAC member Medicine, Chiba University, Japan. 2001- Professor, 1988-1997. Japan Society of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Bioenvironmental Medicine, Graduate School of President 1990~. Japan Society of Endocrine Disrupting Medicine, Chiba University, Japan. Chemicals, Deputy President 1998~. Hirofumi Yokota Yoshino Oishi Kurume Laboratory, Chemicals Evaluation and Research Photo Journalist, Japan Institute (CERI), Japan As a freelance photojournalist, she has been reporting the 1991-1993 Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biosphere destructive realities caused by war to the human and environ- Science, master’s course. 1998-2001 Kyushu University ment. She started working as a freelance photojournalist soon Graduate School of Bioresources and Bioenvironmental after graduating from the Department of Photography, Nihon Science, doctorate course. 1993- present Chemicals Evaluation University College of Art in 1966. She received various awards and Research Institute, Japan (CERI). including Japan Professional Photographers Society Annual Award “People Telling None” in 1982, Japan Professional Photographers Society Annual Award for “Night and Mist, Hiroaki Aoyama Now” and 150 Years of Photography Award in 1989, Kodansya Chief, Laboratory of Reproductive Toxicology, Institute of Publishing Culture Award and Asia and African Award in 1990, Environmental Toxicology, Japan the Minister of Education Newcomers’ Award, Japan Provincial Nomenclatural Institution Award (Local Culture Award) and 1978 Graduated from Nagoya University (Major: Animal the JCJ encouragement award for “Cambodian Hardship and Genetics). 1993 Ph.D. (Graduate School of Nagoya University). Reincarnation” in 1994, Child Welfare Culture Award (Grand Received an Annual award from the Japanese Teratology Prize) for “Exalting Spirit - After a Long-lasting War” in 1998, Society. August, 1994- Visiting Fellow at National Institute of and the 20th Ken Domon’s Award for “Vietnam - the Environmental. March, 1997 Health Sciences (NIEHS, Dignified” in 2001. Laboratory of Experimental Pathology). At present, Chief, Laboratory of Reproductive Toxicology, Toxicology Division I, Institute of Environmental Toxicology. Takeshi Yoro Professor, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kitasato Akihiro Kondo University, Japan Senior Scientist, Biotechnology Research Laboratory, Takara He graduated from School of Medicine, the University of Shuzo Co., Ltd., Japan Tokyo, Japan in 1962. He completed a doctor’s course in exper- imental medicine at the University of Tokyo and received his 1980 B.Sc., Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Gifu M.D.. After a year of internship, he entered the laboratory of University. 1982 M.Sc., Department of Agricultural Chemistry, anatomy in the university